Not a sweet November: Bloody month of student violence

The month of November, continuously a duration when the frigid starts descending on Bangladesh which has lawful begun shedding its sweltering conceal, used to be marked by something else this time spherical: unabating rounds of scholar violence.

Throughout the month, the brutality continuously linked to the Chhatra League had now seemingly seeped into nearly each and every scholar physique.

In diversified areas, protests were moreover considered in the RMG sector, and over the ban of battery-flee rickshaws on Dhaka streets.

While those, alongside others making grievances were being handled, the students endured, in one attach or one other.

The fuse for what used to be about to come centring the most modern spherical of scholar-led violence used to be lit earlier, on the cease of October.

The Titumir nightmare

In the face of weeks of blockades by students of the seven Dhaka University-affiliated schools, the authorities offered that there would perchance be a steady facility most absorbing for the seven college students on DU premises, with devoted officials and registrars.

This did no longer meet Titumir students’ take a look at for the formation of a separate autonomous college for their establishments, leaving them unhappy.

They made up our minds to continue their circulation and offered the closure of all kinds of interior tutorial classes and examinations of the seven schools.

They moreover held rallies on campuses for three days tense an autonomous college.

On 18 November, students of Titumir College descended on Mohakhali for a nightmarish day.

Their train saw traffic circulation fully disrupted.

Worse, a put together used to be moreover attacked, leaving a couple of passengers injured.

Rafiq Uddin Raihan, a scholar of the college’s English division, suggested TBS, “A fee must be shaped. It takes a truly long time to attach a college. However if or no longer it’s shaped, the fee will continuously work on that.”

Others agreed that the principle step used to be to straight build a fee on this regard.

The subsequent day, the training ministry offered the formation of a committee to phrase the feasibility of converting Titumir College into a college. Following the committee, formation, the students offered a suspension of the train after the choice to construct a committee used to be made.

Dhaka College, Metropolis College face off

Two days after the Titumir College fracas had died down, one other fuse used to be ignited.

On 20 November, students of Dhaka College and Metropolis College collided in the Science Lab home.

Dhaka College students alleged that Metropolis College students had beaten up one among their students who used to be alone that morning.

Bricks and stones were pelted on a Dhaka College bus in the afternoon.

A two-hour conflict followed, leaving 15 individuals injured.

Witnesses mentioned each and every groups wielded sticks and iron rods, chased each and every diversified, and hurled brick chips, ensuing in accidents.

The Dhaka College Lecturers Council then demanded the removal of Metropolis College from the home, announcing that over 150 students from Dhaka College were injured in the clashes.

Textile Uni, Polytech students conflict in Tejgaon

All of a unexpected, on the night of 24 November, recordsdata began to damage that students of the Bangladesh Textile University (Butex) and Dhaka Polytechnic Institute had locked horns in the Tejgaon Industrial home.

Police and witnesses mentioned a fight had broken out between students from the two tutorial establishments stemming from a verbal argument.

Rapidly rounds of chases and counter-chases had begun, lasting for an hour from 10pm.

At one stage, police and navy personnel arrived to separate the two groups of students.

About 30 students from all sides were injured in the conflict.

A dying, then devastating attacks

Earlier, on 24 November morning, one other spate of clashes had taken attach on the Dhaka Nationwide Scientific Institute Health center in Ancient Dhaka.

First, students of Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College vandalised the sanatorium over the dying of a scholar, which they alleged used to be as a end result of negative treatment.

The vandalism apparently extended to Suhrawardy and Kabi Nazrul schools.

The very next day (25 November), students of Suhrawardy and Kabi Nazrul schools attacked Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College.

Your entire Jatrabari home came to a discontinuance. When the mud settled, a entire bunch of students and academics were left injured.

Police sue 8,000 college students

The police own filed a case in opposition to 8,000 students of diverse schools including Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College (DMRC) in the capital on charges of vandalism and theft of magazines filled with bullets.

Dhaka’s Sutrapur Police Location Sub-Inspector AKM Hasan Mahmudul Kabir filed the case as the plaintiff the day old to this(24 November).

Anupam Das, sub-inspector of the final registration branch of the police divulge, confirmed the topic this day